The accessibility level of ten public services collected by ISTAT within the Multi-Purpose Survey on Households (1998) is analysed with a nonparametric method.A relative index that measures the global difficulty in accessing services is computed for each household through this method. The index is obtained by means of a nonparametric procedure of combination of service accessibility rankings.Two different approaches were developed. Within the first, we give the same weight to all the services. Within the second, we give more importance to Emergency Room, Grocery and Supermarket services. The aim is to evaluate, from a general point of view, the access difficulty of households to essential social and health, in connection to the household classification in eight groups based on important aspects like the presence of old person or child or chronic ill person.
A non-parametric Index of Accessibility of Services for Households
BOLZAN, MARIO;
2006
Abstract
The accessibility level of ten public services collected by ISTAT within the Multi-Purpose Survey on Households (1998) is analysed with a nonparametric method.A relative index that measures the global difficulty in accessing services is computed for each household through this method. The index is obtained by means of a nonparametric procedure of combination of service accessibility rankings.Two different approaches were developed. Within the first, we give the same weight to all the services. Within the second, we give more importance to Emergency Room, Grocery and Supermarket services. The aim is to evaluate, from a general point of view, the access difficulty of households to essential social and health, in connection to the household classification in eight groups based on important aspects like the presence of old person or child or chronic ill person.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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